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  1. randomuser

    Making a list of “positive and negative words you know” shouldn’t be in a C1 lesson.

    1. Stan

      Well, taken out of the context that looks kind of silly but actually the instructions say: Mauro Gatti uses the words ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ to describe the news in the video. He also uses words such as ‘cheerful’ and ‘frightening.’ Make a list of other positive and negative words you know. As you can see in the TV, we’re looking for such words as bleak, gloomy, uplifting, upbeat, etc. IMHO, it’s a nice vocab extenstion for advanced students so that they can say something more than positive/good or negative/bad news.

  2. Svetlana Urisman

    a great lesson, thank you so much! The topic certainly generated a lot of discussion, and all those neologisms were really taken well!)

    1. Leanne

      Thank you! Great to hear that you had a good lesson 🙂

  3. anned

    Nice topic and nice lesson plan with great vocabulary. Thank you! 🙂

    1. Justa

      Thanks!

  4. Simon

    Excellent stuff, Leanne. Perfect for an early morning online group lesson.

  5. EveSmith

    Nice lesson! Can I suggest including some discussion question using the new vocab at the beginning or getting students to make up their own? I edited the lesson myself to do this.

    1. Justa

      Thanks for the suggestion! Students at this level should be quite familiar with this vocab, so there is no additional practice at this point. Some of the words are used in the questions later in the lesson. However, if you feel that your students need some tasks to activate the vocab more at the beginning of the lesson, here are a few ideas that might be useful: ask students (1) to create sentences with the words which are new to them, (2) to write questions that they can ask their partners, (3) to come up with some news headlines using the vocab (to stick to the same context), or (4) to discuss the sentences (b-g) from ex. 2. I hope that helps 🙂

      1. EveSmith

        Yes, getting them to write questions themselves is usually what I do indeed. Thanks for getting back to me!

        1. Justa

          🙂

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